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Dan Gronkowski

Player breakdown

Dan Gronkowski

Maryland · 2009 Draft Class

6-5255 lbs7th round, 255th overallAge at Draft: 24Age: ~41
LowMissed 700+ Rec
Major awards: 0Heisman votes: 0NIL Contract Value: --
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Model confidence

Success Probability

9%

YearTeamGGSTgtRecYdsY/RTDY/G
2009DET20314402
2010DEN124138658.105.4
Career144169697.704.9
SeasonTeamConfGRecYdsTDYPRYPG
2005MarylandBig Ten0237018.50
2006MarylandBig Ten121115.511
2007MarylandBig Ten076609.40
2008MarylandBig Ten02928739.90
Career140401410.0401.0

Model readout

Probability, context, and base score

XGBoost Prob

9%

ML model output

Context Prob

9%

Rule-based model

Suppression Signals

0

Depth chart context

SHAP Base

0.854

Average prediction

Top Positive Factors

122" broad jump — strong lower-body explosion+0.590
Efficiency consistency: 1.85 — highly consistent across seasons+0.242
4.00 TDs/game — dominant red-zone role in college+0.172

Top Negative Factors

Positive production trend (+83) — improving trajectory-0.723
382 conference-adjusted best-season yards — competition-normalized peak-0.498
37.0 ypg as a freshman — limited first-year impact-0.443

SHAP Feature Impact (Top 20)